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Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as one of five co-founders of the social networking site Facebook. Zuckerberg is the chairman and chief executive of Facebook, Inc.

Born and raised in New York state, he took up writing software programs as a hobby in middle school, beginning with BASIC, with help from his father and a tutor (who called him a "prodigy"). In high school, he excelled in classic literature and fencing while studying at Phillips Exeter Academy.

He later attended Harvard University, majoring in computer science and psychology. In his sophomore year, he wrote a program called Facemash as a "fun" project, letting students on the college's network vote on other students' photo attractiveness. It was shut down within days, but would become a template for his writing Facebook, a program he launched from his dormitory room. With the help of friends, he took Facebook to other campuses...

Facebook is close to unveiling its long-awaited news reading service, and the product could be launched by the end of the month, according to Re/Code. The service, which is called "Paper," will reportedly operate in a manner similar to Flipboard, a n...

Arrogant. Egotistical. Cocky. Entitled. These colorful, critical descriptors are merely a sampling of the words used in association with Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel over the past two weeks. The adjectives are not at all flattering, and Spiegel's reputa...

When it comes to likeability, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel is certainly making it tough on himself. The 23-year-old criticized journalists on Twitter Monday morning, claiming that some details in a recent Forbes cover story about his startup were misrep...

Mark Zuckerberg had a very good 2013. The Facebook cofounder and CEO's net worth increased by $12.4 billion last year, the largest gain of any current tech exec, not counting Bill Gates, according to data released this week from Bloomberg Billionaire...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan took the whole "season of giving" thing to heart once again in 2013. For the second straight year, the couple gave away 18 million Facebook shares -- a gift worth more than $970 million -- to the S...

Put on your party hats and string up the banners: Facebook celebrates its 10th birthday in 2014. You'd be hard pressed to find a more popular, yet polarizing, service than Facebook over the last decade. In less than 10 years, Facebook has collected a...

If there's one thing Facebook generates, besides selfies and baby pics, it's lots and lots of press. The company has more than one billion users, one of tech's most recognizable CEOs (still only 29!), and enormous stores of your personal data. Like i...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday will sell $2.3 billion worth of his company's stock largely to pay tax bills on options that he is exercising. The sale is part of a 70 million share offering. Zuckerberg is selling 41.35 of those shares. Marc...

Facebook made a big deal about the platform's impending redesign in March, but it now appears it's not actually coming to most users. A story by Mike Isaac of AllThingsD claims that the redesign has stalled, and will not actually roll out to users as...

On Thanksgiving, us common folk are usually appreciative of friends, family, a good dinner and a rent-stabilized apartment. Tech CEOs, however, are grateful for more peculiar things. In this comic, Nitrozac and Snaggy of The Joy of Tech predict what ...

For Mark Zuckerberg, immigration reform is the issue of our time. The 29-year-old billionaire founder and CEO of Facebook gave his most recent pitch for immigration reform during an interview on Sunday with ABC News' This Week. "The future of our eco...

On the second floor of building No. 3 at LinkedIn's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., a large blue cooler sits nearly empty, a few surviving ice cubes floating alongside even fewer unopened energy drinks. Scattered throughout the conference room...

As Yammer creator David Sacks mused on Twitter on Wednesday, "At this point, Mark Zuckerberg can wear his hoodie wherever he damn well pleases." Indeed, Facebook's third quarter numbers makes fools of those Wall Street investors who criticized the ch...

Mark Zuckerberg was by far the highest paid public CEO in the United States last year, according to a new report. The Facebook CEO's total compensation for 2012 was nearly $2.3 billion, more than twice that of the next-highest paid CEO, according to ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is making his first known investment in a startup, a firm called Panorama Education that uses data analysis to attempt to improve education. The Cambridge, Mass.-based Panorama announced Monday that it raised $4 million i...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Mark Zuckerberg purchased four houses surroundin...

Got some time on your hands? You can spend 36 years scrolling through Faces of Facebook. The site, created by freelance technologist Natalia Rojas, aggregates all 1.2 billion or so Facebook profile photos and claims to arrange them chronologically, s...

During the week, we consume words in snackable, tweetable bites. But on the weekends, we have the time to take a dive into the murkier, lengthier depths of the Internet and expand our attention spans beyond 140 characters. We can brew a cup of coffee...

Eighteen months ago, Mark Zuckerberg was not happy with Facebook's mobile strategy. The world's largest social network was offering up a weak product -- a hybrid app running on HTML5 instead of native apps for iOS and Android -- essentially ignoring ...

Facebook has been criticized by the media and users many times over the years for privacy concerns, but Mark Zuckerberg suggested that nothing has had as much of an impact on user trust as the uproar over reports of the NSA's access to Facebook data....

Facebook Inc. founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who has been pushing for a revision of U.S. immigration law, plans to meet with the top four Republicans in the House next week in Washington. The meeting, scheduled for Sept. 19, wil...

One of Facebook’s core values, Move Fast, isn’t always successful for the company. “It gets us into tons of trouble,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said during an interview at TechCrunch Disrupt, a technology conference held in San Francisco, on Wednesday. “So...

Can you imagine tasting a social network? Two enterprising ice cream makers at Valentino Ice Cream Shop in Tisno, on Croatia’s Murter island, came up with the novel idea. One of the owners, Admir Adil, noticed his 15-year-old daughter was incessantly...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wants to bring Internet access to everyone. Late Tuesday he announced the launch of Internet.org, an initiative to bring Internet access to the two-thirds of the world's population that can't get online. Only ...

Last week, The New York Times detailed the personal, political and financial connections between Newark Mayor Cory Booker and a who's who of Silicon Valley: Eric Schmidt, Marc Andreessen, Reid Hoffman, Sean Parker and more. Some of them backed his 20...

At least 20 people, including Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg, have contributed to the campaigns of both Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Cory Booker and Republican Governor Chris Christie, an analysis of their largest donors shows. Donors to bot...

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined 700 of his employees to march in San Francisco's Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Pride Celebration on Sunday morning. According to The Wall Street Journal, Facebook sent about 15% of its workforce -- a...

"Facebook was not originally created to be a company," CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his SEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18, 2012. "It was built to accomplish a social mission -- to make the w...

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